Jim Cason, the associate deputy secretary at the Interior Department and the acting assistant secretary for Indian affairs, has denied federal recognition to the Abenaki Nation of Vermont. According to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Cason determined that the St....

The Alumni Association at Yale University held a program in honor of Henry Roe Cloud, the first Native American graduate at Yale. Roe Cloud was a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. He was born in December 1884...

Melvin Ray Kerchee, the former secretary-treasurer of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, was sentenced to 10 years after being convicted of the rapes of two young girls. Kerchee, 57, was found guilty for the rapes of a 10-year-old and...

There's been another homicide on the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota. Michael James Littlewolf, 20, was found unconscious on Sunday. He died on Monday of closed head trauma injuries. Meanwhile, authorities in Cass County issued an arrest warrant for...

The Canadian government will replace all 26 homes on the Kwicksutaineuk First Nation in British Columbia. All the homes on the reserve, located on Gilford Island, are infected by mold. Three will be replaced immediately with the rest to be...

William Yellow Robe, a playwright of Native and African-American ancestry, explores ethnic identity in his new play, "Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers." The play follows the story of Craig Robe, a descendant of a Native woman and an African-American man...

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History in Monterey, California, is hosting the 11th annual American Indian Art Market. The market was started by Black Eagle, a Shoshone artist originally from Nevada. He got tired of seeing fake goods being...

The identities of the victims in a triple homicide on the Navajo Nation have been confirmed. All are three young Navajos. Bobby Wayne Fulton, 20, and Lars Yazzie, 18, were killed in the early Monday morning incident. The third...

The Hoopa Valley Tribe of northern California drafted a management plan that protects one of its most important sacred sites. The Integrated Resource Management Plan created a buffer zone around an area where the sacred White Deerskin Dance takes place....

Five tribal leaders met with the police chief and mayor in Duluth, Minnesota, to discuss their concerns with police treatment of Native Americans. Erma Vizenor, the chairwoman of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, said the meeting was productive and...

Police in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, are investigating the treatment of Native actor who was handcuffed and thrown into a police cruiser. Gregory Odjig, an Odawa from Ontario, is in Saskatoon to perform with the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company. But after the...

"When Congress authorized the Central Arizona Project in 1968, one of the projects in the package was Orme Dam. It was to be a flood control and storage dam built at the confluence of the Verde and Salt rivers, near...

Guy Dufault, a lobbyist for the Naragansett Tribe, has canceled the paid TV show in which he claimed he had the "stuff" to bring down Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri (R). Dufault continues to apologize for making comments about Carcieri's...

A forum on Indian mascots drew a crowd at Newberry College on Wednesday. The South Carolina school is on the NCAA's list of schools with hostile and abusive mascots. Newberry calls itself the "Indians" and uses "Fear the Spear"...

Two more universities have dropped their use of Indian imagery after their nicknames were deemed hostile and abusive by the NCAA. Carthage College in Wisconsin is going from the "Redmen" to the "Red Men" and will remove references to Indian...

MAP: Tribes located near Yucca Mountain site. Leaders of the Western Shoshone Nation say they won't give up their fight against the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The Western Shoshone National Council says the 1863 Treaty of...

House Republican leaders have agreed to remove drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the budget in order to avoid a mutiny among moderate Republicans. At least 22 moderates told the House leadership they would not vote for the...

Jack Abramoff asked the president of Gabon for $9 million in order to set up a meeting with President Bush, The New York Times reports. On July 28, 2003, Abramoff told Gabon President Omar Bongo that he was already...